Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Italian auto exports declined 8% last year, Italian automakers hardly noticed the difference. In their own country, the prospering Italians are switching in such numbers from scooters to autos that the domestic demand more than offset the export slump. Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, plans to expand its Turin plant to turn out 3,000 cars a day instead of the present...
Renault is also getting over the blow. It has taken back most of the 3,000 workers laid off when the slump began, has its output back to normal. To spur U.S. sales, it put on sale the Gordini, a more powerful version of the Dauphine. Renault and the other foreign car makers think that the slump that hit them last year has bottomed...
...Crimson, the lineup now remains doubtful in view of coach Floyd Wilson's Casey Stengel-like switching in the loss to Princeton Saturday. Gary Borchard, who broke out of a mid-season slump with 24 points against the Tigers, should start at one forward. Captain Bob Bowditch and Joe Deering have been the guards all season...
William McChesney Martin Jr., Federal Reserve Board Chairman: The inventory slump will have run its course in another couple of months. Steel is starting to look a little better. People have money, and I think they are going to buy autos. They don't want to buy a new car and park it in the snow. They want to wait until they can see robins...
...slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster, he shoved out to sea under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After a while, the days and nights ran together, and once, in near delirium, Rafael believed he was being inspected by a huge, two-horned sea monster...